Research Article

A TREM-1 Polymorphism A/T within the Exon 2 Is Associated with Pneumonia in Burn-Injured Patients

Table 1

Demographics and clinical variables of 540 individuals who met enrollment criteria.

VariableTotal

Age, yr 38 (24–51)
Sex, male, (%)407 (74%)
Percent of TBSA burned (TBSA)25 (16–41)
Percent of TBSA full thickness burn (FT)11 (0–25)
LOS (length of stay)21 (11–41)
LOS BICU (Burn Intensive Care Unit) 10 (3–24)
Apache II12 (6–16)
Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)119 (22%)
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)209 (39%)
Inhalation injury148 (27%)
Ventilator days13 (6–23)
Sepsis107 (20%)
Complicated sepsis (severe sepsis/septic shock)143 (26%)
Mortality74 (14%)
Race
 Asian8 (2%)
 Black89 (16%)
 Hispanic126 (23%)
 Caucasian313 (57%)
 Other14 (2%)
TREM-1 genotype
 Homozygous AA418 (77%)
 Heterozygous AT111 (21%)
 Homozygous TT11 (2%)

Continuous data are presented as medians (25th–75th percentiles). Categorical data are presented as number of patients (percentage).